In a recent entry of Raymond Chen’s blog “The Old New Thing”, he explains how the time format was changed in Windows 8 to use the Unicode character ∶ (U+2236 RATIO) instead of : (U+003A COLON):
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I have a synchronous process that is trigger by a user action and the process can take more than 10 minutes.
While it's being processed, the previous UI that user triggered from and the previous data ...

What would be a way of making clear the distinction between 00:00 min:sec format and 00:00 hour:min format? Due to spacing constraints (driven by specific client specs regarding font sizes; this is an ...

No code, but I looking for best practice, things to consider.
I am doing an i18n scheduling app. I have a depart time (tA) and arrival time(tB). Often tB will be the next day. I want to display the ...

I have a table which sums up worked hours for each project.
When the ammount of hours is huge, has still sense use hh:mm format, or decimal format could be more clear?
Reading, for example 7650:30, ...

I am displaying a To Do list that has time limits involved. However an item doesn't have to have a due date/time.
Users are finding my current UI confusing, as they believe a blank time limit, means "...

I would like our users to type in a time field for a grid column filter. The time field will be formatted in a hours and minutes format like HH:MM or HHH:MM.
My question is how should we allow users ...

Business requirements:
Our company provides services. A service has a start time and a duration. Customers can book a service only when one of our employees is available, thus our employees must have ...

I would like to know about the time format which is used by Facebook - relative times such as "2 hours ago", rather than absolute times such as "13:35".
Is there any research about which time format ...

The chart below has a total duration of one week, and the data was grouped by a one day duration to come up with each of the bars.
What should the total duration (1 week) and group by duration (1 day)...

I'm currently working on a very long form (can't be shortened) which I'm trying to make a bit more playful and easy to fill.
There are a lot of radio buttons, which is ok in terms of usability, but a ...

This is a deeper question than this question.
When a chat message is sent in a decentralized system, there are multiple events happening in a row. If a message is sent through a routing server, such ...

I have a plot made of many samples, usually the sampling rate is 8 samples per seconds but it may be more or less. Each and every sample has a timestamp of course.
I have a UI in which I display the ...

In an app I'm building the user can click a button to load more content, which might take 1 second or up to X seconds (when X seconds passed I show a timeout error message). There is a "Loading" text (...

I'll try to minimize the rubber-ducking; I'm posting this as a proxy for my team.
We're designing summary table that shows work history of a part (on a mechanical machine). It's intended as a quick ...

Currently My team members are in brainstorm session for local news app for both android and IOS. Since news is the thing that is supposed to be up to date with current time. Some members argue it to ...

I create a chat (support) for application.
Are there any research about how long the user can wait for help? I want to ensure that after a specific time the user will be connected with the consultant....

I have a web-UI where certain things should happen at scheduled times. Think like a limo service, where the driver should be at the pickup location 15 minutes before the scheduled pickup time, then ...

So, basically I need to display the weekly schedule for classes. I would like this to be quite compact, so I want to just show if the class runs in the morning/afternoon/evening for each day (I will ...

I'm working on a reports dashboard for IT Admin users. I need to make a UX recommendation on date range for the reports, and am trying to understand what is best for these expert users: Rolling data (...

I am developing a Weather Widget for an iOS app.
Basically what this widget will do is allow the user to select a city and return it's current temperature and weather. The user can either refresh the ...

I see more and more that messengers like Skype forego precise timestamps and display things like 'just now' for messages younger than 5 minutes.
The same holds true for YouTube videos, that show '1 ...

We are going to design an application wherein 2 persons can do a conference call to each other. One person is a consultant while the other is a customer.
The consultant needs to set his / her date &...

I have a situation wherein I need to ask users on what day of the week an activity takes place. It can take place anywhere from 1-7 days, but for each day the user "activates", there must be a start ...

I have an application that tracks the housing history of program participants. The worker using this program will already have their current housing information inputted elsewhere.
Normally, I would ...

I'm working on some UI where you are able to select a time range for each day using dropdown time pickers. The thing is that it is valid to select a time from yesterday or tomorrow. For example, for ...